{"id":1310,"date":"2017-06-09T14:36:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T19:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2017-06-09T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T19:36:23","slug":"an-epic-looking-commodore-vic-20-rpg-realms-of-quest-v-is-under-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1310\/an-epic-looking-commodore-vic-20-rpg-realms-of-quest-v-is-under-development","title":{"rendered":"An Epic-Looking Commodore VIC-20 RPG, Realms of Quest V, is Under Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VIC-20<\/p>\n

Last month, veteran Commodore VIC-20 developer Ghislain de Blois emailed me about his latest project, a turn-based RPG called Realms of Quest V<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

He asked me to spread the word, and since I recently upgraded the WordPress installation for this site, it’s actually easy for me to do so.<\/p>\n

I have not tried it yet, but man — considering the limitations of the fairly anemic VIC-20, it looks pretty amazing. Here’s what Ghislain had to say about it:<\/p>\n

It’s an RPG game that will span 4 disk sides.<\/p>\n

Features:
\n-over 250 portrait graphics
\n-16 races and 16 classes
\n-music
\n-big world map four times greater than that featured in Realms III
\n-20 cities to explore with townspeople to talk to
\n-10 player characters allowed in party with an additional 10 spaces for non-player characters thus allowing a party size of 20 characters. This is an 8 bit RPG record.
\n-customizations: choose from 4 fonts and 2 graphical viewing modes.<\/p>\n

I will hopefully be done in a few months. I’ve been working on this game every day since the beginning of February.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

Ghislain says you can download the latest build of the game here<\/a>, and that it requires 32K of RAM (which requires a plug-in accessory for the VIC-20): “To run it, you’ll need a VIC-20 or VIC-20 emulator with 32K of expansion RAM. First file to boot should be RQ5.BOOT,” he says.<\/p>\n

Also, there is an active discussion thread<\/a> going on about it over at Denial, a forum with a VIC-20 focus.<\/p>\n

Until you play Realms<\/em> yourself, here are a few more glorious screenshots to whet your whistle:<\/p>\n

\"VIC-20<\/p>\n

\"VIC-20<\/p>\n

\"VIC-20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, veteran Commodore VIC-20 developer Ghislain de Blois emailed me about his latest project, a turn-based RPG called Realms of Quest V. He asked me to spread the word, and since I recently upgraded the WordPress installation for this site, it’s actually easy for me to do so. I have not tried it yet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,13,14,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-video-game-projects","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}